Building Trust When Grief & Trauma Are Present: How STEs Alter the Soul

Abstract

In this interactive presentation, the focus will be on creative methods that help clients acknowledge and speak to their grief and trauma. These taboo subjects tend to keep folks who have had spiritually transformative experiences quiet. When grief gets acknowledged within the therapeutic room, trust for the process begins to form. Building trust when it often seems that the world is against you is a task that begs to be part of the therapist’s narrative. You will learn effective methods to move into the depths of the client’s pain through projective techniques that are easily accessible to all. Finding the fluidity and balance in your own process allows for the same with your client.

Presenter Bio

Edy Nathan, MA, LCSW, CST is a licensed psychotherapist and certified sex therapist with over 20 years of experience specializing in the integration of psychotherapy and the world of spirituality. She holds a Masters from New York University and Fordham. She has post-graduate training from the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, The Gestalt Center, and the Jungian Institute. She is a certified EMDR practitioner, regression therapist, and certified Hypnotherapist. In her expertise as a grief therapist, she interweaves her formal training as a psychotherapist with her views on trauma, abuse, and death. She believes that everyone experiences grief throughout their lives. Grief is not just about the death of a loved one, but the losses we experience in life. Having trained with renowned past life therapy regressionist, Brian Weiss, MD, spiritual leader Thomas Moore, PhD, and shamanic healer, Hank Wesselman, PhD, Edy draws on her training to create a wide repertoire of tools that help people learn to live with their grief.